A Companion to Modern Art [Hardcover]

• Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art
• Aims for reader accessibility by highlighting a plurality of approaches and voices in the field
• Presents Modern Art’s foundational philosophic ideas and practices, as well as the complexities of key artists such as Cezanne and Picasso, and those who straddled the modern and contemporary
• Looks at the historical reception of Modern Art, in addition to the latest insights of art historians, curators, and critics to artists, educators, and more

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgments xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Introduction 1
Pam Meecham

Part I Ancient & Modern 15

1 Revitalizing Romanticism; or, Reflections on the Nietzschean Aesthetic and the Modern Imagination 17
Colin Trodd

2 A Cartography of Desires and Taboos: The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes 37
Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen

3 Primitive/Modern/Contemporary 55
Paul Wood

4 Did Modernism Redefine Classicism? The Ancient Modernity of Classical Greek Art 73
Whitney Davis

5 Robert Goldwater and the Search for the Primitive: The Asmat Project at the Museum of Primitive Art 91
Nick Stanley

6 Surrealist Ireland: the Archaic, the Modern lE